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The gospel that is oriented toward a Jewish audience and that portrays Jesus as the "new Moses" is
B) Matthew
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"I am the Light of the World" is a statement found in what non synoptic gospel?
C) John
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Many fine portraits of women are found in what gospel, that emphasizes compassion and also contains the story of the Good Samaritan?
C) Luke
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Jesus said that all important religious laws could be summed up in the
C) Two Great Commandments
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In Jesus' time, what power controlled Israel?
A) Rome
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Which of these books is found in the New Testament?
D) Hebrews
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The Jewish monastic community that may have strongly influenced John the Baptist and Jesus was the
D) Essenes
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An essential part of the teaching of Jesus was
Love one another
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When the early Christian belief spread outside Israel, it was spread particularly by what missionary?
Paul
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In 1054, what happened between the Easter Church and the Western Church?
They Split Apart
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The Christian bishop of North Africa who wrote his Confessions and influenced much later Christianity was
Augustine
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Perhaps the most important ritual of Christianity is a sign of entry into the church, or
baptism
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The color that symbolizes sorrow for sin and repentance and is used during Lent is
Purple
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A letter to an early Christian community is called
An Epistle
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Regarding traditional practices, Jesus seems to have thought that
human happiness was an important goal
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The major christian rituals, such as baptism and the Lord's Supper, are often called
sacraments
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Christianity added its books to those of the Hebrew Bible; distinctively Christian books are called
The New Testament
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What movement, growing after 500 c.e. in Europe, helped spread Christianity widely throughout Europe?
Monasticism
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The Gothic cathedrals were build primarily during the
Middle Ages
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Which of the following saints has been removed recently from the Church year calendar because of the lack of evidence for his existence?
St. Valentine
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The Protestant Reformation was started
Martin Luther
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The founder of the Church of England was
Henry VIII
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The branch of Christianity that is significant in Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania is called
Eastern Orthodox
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The central sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church is called
the Mass
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The bishop who is the most important bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the patriarch of
Constantinople
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In 313 the emperor Constantine published an Edict of Toleration, which alloed
Christians to worship publicly
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Christianity first spread in
the Mediterranean region
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Lent is
a period of preparation for Easter
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The history of the early Christian Church is found in what biblical book?
Acts
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What is the oldest branch of the Protestant Reformation
Lutheranism
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The branch of Protestantism that especially has stressed the religious value of work and discipline is
Calvinism
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The authorized set of biblical books is called the canon which comes from the greek term meaning
measuring rod
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The person whose rule for monkey helped organize and spread Western monasticism was
Benedict
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The term a.d. means
Anno Domini
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The view that the end of the world is near is called
apocalypticism
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The Greek term meaning Christos is
a term meaning belonging to Christ
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Christianity grew out of
Judaism
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Jesus died at the time of this religious festival:
Passover
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Literally, gospel mean
good news
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Jesus opposed divorce because
divorce left a woman unable to support herself
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The primary language that Jesus spoke was
Aramaic
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The early Christian group that was primarily Jewish in background had its headquarters in
Jerusalem
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One of the major areas of debate among early Christians was about
whether or not they had to keep Jewish laws
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The oldest of the gospels in generally thought to be
Mark
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Literally, synoptic means
together see/same eye
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The Gospel of John shows many similarities with
The Dead Sea Scrolls
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In Jesus' day, a Samaritan was
a member of a despised outsider group
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The book of Acts is really the second part of this gospel
Luke
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Orthodoxy literally means
Right belief
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The person who provided rules for how Eastern Crhistian monks live was
Basil
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The medieval nun who wrote mystical songs was
Hildegard of Bingen
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The religious order that has especially focused on teaching and scholarship is
Dominicans
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The first major Church council was held in 325 C.e. at
Nicaea
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The Archbishop who helped turn the Political Reformation in England into a Religious Reformation was
Thomas Cranmer
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